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Asked: 2026-05-18T23:20:14+00:00

I’ve got a TFS project with a 0x96 character in its title, e.g. Project

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I’ve got a TFS project with a 0x96 character in its title, e.g. “Project – X” which I need to reference in a batch file. The problem is that this particular dash is represented by 0x96 (and not 0x20) which is a control character in Unicode (û in ASCII?), so the following (in an ANSI encoded .cmd file) fails as “Project û X”.

echo "Project – X"

But when pasted straight to the command line (I think) it cheats and translates the 0x96 to a 0x20 (which is no good as my file names don’t match). I tried this with a hex editor and it looks like there’s some cheating going on.

The .cmd file won’t work if it’s encoded as anything but ANSI.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Something like this works

    @echo off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
chcp 1252
set "name=Projekt û X.txt"
chcp 850
type "!name!"

    The important thing is the chcp 1252, the chcp 850 is only to switch back to my default code page, but it is not neccessary.

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